Word: avidity
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Since leaving the Government, Schultze has managed to spend more time with Wife Rita, a part-time librarian at George Washington University, and their six children, aged 11 to 27. Schultze and his family in recent years have become avid backpackers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from their modest home in northwest Washington. Said a colleague: "Give Charlie some free time and an open trail. and he's gone." In his new job, however, Schultze will have little time for hikes, except between the Executive Office Building and the White House...
...dozen checkpoints later, at the finish line, 200 orienteers compare notes on the day's outing, its mishaps and pleasures. Says one avid orienteer: "The nice thing about this sport is that no matter how long it takes you to finish, you can never lose. You're having too much...
Although I am an avid Democrat, attended the Democratic Convention and voted for Jimmy Carter, it almost broke my heart to see Betty lose...
Spark hints at dark spiritual convulsions, a "new world which was arising out of the ashes of the old, avid for immaterialism." Toward the end of the book, the fraudulent Hubert is lionized by a crowd of jaded Romans as a spokes man for the vengeful goddess Diana...
...always sold out?and have long waiting lists. Half a dozen pros have been joined to players in holy matrimony, and the groups average about five or six marriages a year between the clients themselves. Commenting on the swingles system, former U.S. Information Agency Director Carl Rowan, an avid Washington tennis player, observes, "It's a safer and healthier way of getting a date, but it sure costs a lot more than buying three martinis." Confided a single girl at a New York City tennis club: "It's not like being picked up in a singles bar. At least...